Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] add support for compressing debug sections to save space
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:15:56
Message-Id: 4F10AD0A.8030201@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] add support for compressing debug sections to save space by Mike Frysinger
1 On 01/13/2012 12:29 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > Since binutils/gdb can compress the .debug* sections with zlib into
3 > .zdebug*, we should be able to save quite a bit of space -- on my
4 > system, I saw /usr/lib/debug/ go from ~20GB to ~7.5GB.
5 >
6 > This requires binutils/gdb to be built with USE=zlib which is why
7 > this defaults to off.
8 >
9 > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
10 > ---
11 > bin/ebuild-helpers/prepstrip | 6 ++++--
12 > man/make.conf.5 | 10 +++++++++-
13 > pym/_emerge/EbuildPhase.py | 6 ++++--
14 > pym/portage/const.py | 2 +-
15 > 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
16
17 LGTM
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac